Scientists have assembled a catalogue of more than 2,000 stars that could be supporting alien life. Researchers behind the ...

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

A study published in Nature Communications suggests that Europa’s rocky seafloor is likely too mechanically strong to support ...

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

Thousands of light-years from Earth, there could be another planet hospitable to life. Kepler 69c. And you’re about to travel ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Jupiter's moon Europa is on the short list of places in our solar system seen as promising in the search for life beyond ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

During its original network run in the 1960s, Star Trek was famously saved from cancellation twice by fan letter-writing ...

Although Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons, it’s the smallest of the Galilean moons – the largest being Ganymede. With an equatorial diameter of about 3,100 kilometres, Europa is ...